On Aug 30, 2011, at 1:27 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 01:07:46PM +0200, Mike Solomon wrote: >> Bad: the user has to use a new syntax - instead of \override Stem #'length = >> #5, they need to type \override Stem #'Y-extent = #(stem::length 5) > > What's the difference (from your end) between #(stem::length 5) > and #5 ? >
Aside from the fact that one uses stem::length and one doesn't, I don't know, which is why I'm the wrong guy to ask about UI :) In current master, #'Y-extent = #(stem::length 5) does exactly what #'length = #5 did a week ago. I believe that Trevor is claiming that #(stem::length 5) is worse from a UI-perspective than #5. I think he is right insofar as stem::length means there are more things to type, but I think that if the person has gotten to the point where they are doing tweaks, they can write #(stem::length 5) instead of #5 with little to no extra mental overhead (especially if it is explained in the docs). However, I may be underestimating how difficult the LilyPond user experience is - I do know that when I started using LilyPond, numbers seemed friendlier to me than things in parentheses. Cheers, MS _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
